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busy streets webcams?
by comboy 9y ago
busy streets webcams?
- MBCook 9y agoThat would be susceptible to traffic patterns.
- firethief 9y agoNot meaningfully. The input doesn't need to be uniform, just unpredictable. Statistical patterns are fine, as long as no one can predict exactly what's going to happen (to the pixel level). Even if all the drivers on the road were collaborating, they couldn't coordinate well enough to feed the camera adversarially predictable inputs. At least, not human drivers...
- MBCook 9y agoI was thinking more along the lines of busy/non-busy times may affect how much random data you get at different times of the day/week. Not specifically some sort of giant coordinated attack to modify the randomness generated to specific values.
- comboy 9y agoCars don't look exactly the same and are not in the exact same places. Lighting changes. People look very different and walk different paths. It's going through PRNG so even very small pixel differences (which you can find even on an empty street thanks to changing weather, litter, wind and so on) are good enough if they are unpredictable. In other words, when you compare pictures of the same lava lamp with pictures of some random cars, I think you will be able to find more patterns in the lava lamp movement. You would also likely be able to predict it better (well that's the same thing I guess).
- Quenty 9y agoMy guess is there’s still enough noise it doesn’t matter.
- twic 9y agoPut a fountain in the lobby and have a microphone listening to the splashes.